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“Invisible Barriers” and Discriminatory Laws to Delay Women’s Economic Equality by 286 Years

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) debates at United Nations Headquarters how to end legal and social discrimination…

The Queen Witnesses How Small Producers Create Jobs, Empower Women, and Reduce Poverty

Cocoa producers from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Panama, supported by the BBVA Microfinance Foundation (BBVAMF), shared how their small…

The BBVA Microfinance Foundation, the first Spanish private strategic partner to join CGAP, the global development partnership housed at the World Bank

The BBVA Microfinance Foundation (BBVAMF) is the first Spanish private sector organization to become a strategic partner of CGAP, a…

The BBVA Microfinance Foundation at the Global Refugee Forum

December 18th is known as International Migrants Day, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in the year 2000. Conflicts, catastrophes…

Digital inclusion, one of the priorities of the global experts’ meeting at the United Nations

Gabriela Eguidazu, director of Innovation and Inclusive Growth of the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, was a speaker at the meeting of…

For the first time a private sector organization uses the Oxford Multidimensional Poverty Index to assess its clients’ deprivations

The BBVA Microfinance Foundation is the first private organization to use this index to study the situation of the 2.8…

For the third consecutive year, BBVAMF is considered first foundation in contribution to development in Latin America and second in the world

The BBVA Microfinance Foundation (BBVAMF) is once again, for the third consecutive year, the first in contribution to development in…

Microinsurance: social and health protection for less than a euro per month

The pandemic has shown the importance of having insurance to cover hospital expenses, temporary unemployment or death. These unexpected expenditures…

The BBVA Microfinance Foundation at the United Nations CSW66

During the 66th edition of United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women, Laura Fernández Lord, BBVA Microfinance Foundation’s head…

Open call for BBVA Microfinance Foundation’s DIME Internship Program

“DIME is not just an internship program, it's a life-changing experience”

Bancamía, committed to Venezuelan refugees

BBVA Microfinance Foundation’s Colombian MFI is the first local banking institution to ally with The Tent Partnership for Refugees (Tent),…

BBVAMF, acknowledged at the 2019 Euromoney Awards for Excellence, as part of BBVA’s CSR

BBVA has won the ‘World’s Best Bank for Financial Inclusion’ category at the 2019 Euromoney Awards for Excellence, for making…